Measuring-pump



(No Model.)

A. B. SIMONDS.

MEASURING PUMP. No. 336,761. Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AMOS B. SIMONDS, OF YOUNGSTOVN, OHIO.

MEASURING-PUMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,761, dated February23, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMOS B. SIMONDS, of Youngstown, in the county ofMahoning and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Measuring-Pumps, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved pump fordrawing oil from abarrel combined with a measure.

The invention consists in the combination of parts and details, ashereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved measuringpump. Fig.2isalongitudinal sectional view of the measuring-vessel.

The pump A is provided with an upwardlyprojecting pipe, B, the top ofwhich is curved downward and provided with an apertured ball, O, held ina socket formed in the upper end ofa tube, D, held in a vessel, E,provided with a cock, F, in its bottom. The lower end of the tube D isprovided with a screen, G, and the tube is surrounded by an annularpiston or float, H, having gage-rods J, pro- 0 jecting through the topof the vessel E. Adrippan, L, is held below the vessel E on the end of atube, M, projecting from the pump-tube below the pipe B, as shown. Thepump is placed in the barrel 0 and the oil pumped into the vessel E, andas the oil in the vessel rises it raises the float and the rods J showthe quantity of oil int-he vessel E. Avessel for receiving the oil isplaced on the pan L, and the cock F opened to permit the oil to flowfrom the vessel E into the vessel on the pan L. The drip oil collects onthe pan L and flows through the pipe M back intothe pump, thuspreventing any loss of oil. As the vessel E is suspended by aball-and-socket joint from the tube B, the liquid in the said vessel Ewill always be level.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a pump, of the pipe B, the ball 0, the vesselE, the tube D in the vessel E, and having a socket formed on its top forreceiving the ball 0, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combinatiomwith thepump A, of the pipe B, the vessel E, the tubeD, the piston H, the rods J, and the cock F, substantially as hereinshown and described.

AMOS B. SIMONDS.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. CLARKE, M. W. J OHNSON.

